Cyprus as it was in 1879

Those who don’t like reading books, can imagine this text as a blog of this Samuel White Baker guy. It is an good set of travelling notes, that includes descriptions of the places and people, notes on politics and economy, as well as observations and statistics.

Here is an interesting statistical sample from the first quarter of the book:

(The census of Nicosia, taken on 31st January, 1879, represents the
population as follows:--